Stylops

Stylops
	Stylops species: Adult male at top. Female and pupa at bottom right, B & C
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Strepsiptera
Family:	Stylopidae
Genus:	Stylops; Kirby, 1802

Stylops melittae Male; note the halteres in front of the wings

Stylops melittae females protruding from the abdomen of an Andrenid bee

Stylops^[1] is a genus of obligately endoparasitic insects in the family Stylopidae. Hosts are typically members of the order Hymenoptera. The official seal, and later logo, of the Royal Entomological Society features a male Stylops.^[2]

The name "stylops", used without a capital "s", refers as a common name to any member of the order Strepsiptera, and not only the genus Stylops.^[3]

Species[]

Many^[4] including:

Perkins, 1918
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Reichert, 1914
Newport, 1851
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Curtis, 1828
Medvedev, 1970
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Kirby, 1802
Günther, 1957
Perkins, 1918
Luna de Carvalho, 1969
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Pasteels, 1949
Stylops melittae Kirby, 1802
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Perkins, 1918
Ogloblin, 1923
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Bohart, 1936
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Kinzelbach, 1967
Schkaff, 1925
Luna de Carvalho, 1974
Perkins, 1918
Perkins, 1918
Pierce, 1909
Luna de Carvalho, 1974

References[]

^ Kirby W (1802) Monographia apum Angliæ; or, An attempt to divide into their natural genera and families, such species of the Linnean genus Apis as have been discovered in England; with descriptions and observations. To which are prefixed some introductory remarks upon the class Hymenoptera, and a synoptical table of the nomenclature of the external parts of these insects. J. Raw, Ipswich, London. Vol. 2: 258 pp.
^ "Stylops". 11 May 2017.
^ Merriam-Webster: stylops broadly: an insect of the order Strepsiptera |[1]
^ GBIF: Stylops Kirby, 1802

[1] Kirby W (1802) Monographia apum Angliæ; or, An attempt to divide into their natural genera and families, such species of the Linnean genus Apis as have been discovered in England; with descriptions and observations. To which are prefixed some introductory remarks upon the class Hymenoptera, and a synoptical table of the nomenclature of the external parts of these insects. J. Raw, Ipswich, London. Vol. 2: 258 pp.

[2] "Stylops". 11 May 2017.

[3] Merriam-Webster: stylops broadly: an insect of the order Strepsiptera |[1]

[4] GBIF: Stylops Kirby, 1802

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